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Sara Fischer / Axios:
NBC News says it will add over 200 jobs to strengthen its streaming services and websites, including doubling its digital staff for Today — NBCU News Group is adding hundreds of jobs to its digital organization, led by a major investment in streaming as well as in its “TODAY” show brand, executives tell Axios.
Mark Jacob / Northwestern University's Medill Local News Initiative:
A look at the emerging trend of local investors, especially in smaller US towns, buying news outlets from large chains to reverse decades of disinvestment — As chain consolidation brings new uncertainty to an already fluid news landscape, another trend is emerging in which local investors buy news outlets …
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American Press Institute, @lenny_mendonca, The Rural Blog, @localnewsini, @timafranklin, @timafranklin and @jayrosen_nyu
Elizabeth Culliford / Reuters:
Facebook's restricting interest-based and web activity ad targeting for users under 18 on its platforms, only allowing segmentation by age, gender, and location — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc will stop allowing advertisers to target people under 18 on its platforms based on their interests …
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Wall Street Journal, Adweek, Engadget, The Hill, @wsj, @mshannahmurphy, @eculliford, @madqueenshow, @alexhern, The Verge, @bowknowsbiz, @andymstone, @amnestytech, NBC News, About Facebook and Instagram, more at Techmeme »
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Snopes says it has raised over $1.7M from ~44K supporters to fund its legal battle against Proper Media, which has filed four lawsuits against it since 2017 — Snopes, one of the oldest fact-checking websites in the country, has raised over $1.7 million from over 44,400 supporters to help …
Discussion:
@vinnysgreen and @filip_struharik
Indigo Olivier / The Nation:
Media unions, including at the Daily Beast, are leading the charge against NDAs by adding provisions in contracts that ban them as a matter of workplace safety — Workers in the industry argue that nondisclosure agreements are a matter of workplace safety, making them “mandatory subjects of bargaining.”
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@jamieson, bookforum.com, @rkgwork, @josheidelson, @thenation, @thenation, @wgaeast, @benjamindictor, @lainnafader, @indigoolivier, @indigoolivier, @thenation, @lainnafader and @kbriquelet
Charlotte Tobitt / Press Gazette:
UK's Reach says it will employ more journalists than at any point in the last decade by the end of 2021 and commits an extra ~$27M to tech and data projects — Reach now employs more journalists than it did in 2019, despite hundreds of jobs lost in a restructuring programme last year.
Chris Roush / Talking Biz News:
Memo: Louise Story, WSJ's chief news strategist and chief product and technology officer, is leaving WSJ and Dow Jones — Wall Street Journal editor in chief Matt Murray sent out the following on Tuesday:
Discussion:
Insider, @bgrueskin and @grynbaum
Jon Allsop / Columbia Journalism Review:
US media coverage of the failed January 6 committee shows how political analysis and reporting is still largely trapped in “both sides” framings — In late May, over the Memorial Day weekend, the top story on NBC's Meet the Press was a recent vote by Republican senators to kill …
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USA Today, The Nation, The Hill, @jon_allsop, @mickimaynard, PRESS RUN, @jon_allsop, @theplumlinegs, @cjr, ABC7, New York Times and Fox News
Joshua Benton / Nieman Lab:
Analysis: of the 20 largest US newspapers, only seven are now led by a white man while 12 are led by a woman, a POC, or both, and one top job is vacant — Among the 20 biggest dailies, nearly two-thirds of their newsrooms are run by a woman or a person of color (or both).
Discussion:
@niemanfdn, @alanmillernlp, @jbenton, @jbenton and @jbenton
Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Parrot Analytics: Netflix's share of audience demand for new online shows in the US has fallen from 71% at the end of 2017 to 46% in Q2, 2021 — For the past decade, Netflix offered the same response every time it had a bad quarter: This is just a blip. — In 2015, it blamed a transition to chip-based credit cards.
Discussion:
@lucas_shaw, @business, @lucas_shaw and The Streamable
Washington Post:
Survey of 20,699 Americans: those who rely on Facebook for COVID-related news are less likely to get vaccinated than average and less likely than Fox viewers — Biden said social media companies are ‘killing people’ by spreading vaccine misinformation — The White House has been sharply critical …
The New York Times Company:
NYT has named David Halbfinger, its former Jerusalem bureau chief, as the next politics editor, and LA bureau chief Manny Fernandez as deputy politics editor — After a standout tenure as Jerusalem bureau chief, David is returning to America to lead our political coverage.
Discussion:
Talking Biz News, @dangillmor, @sangernyt, @cliffordlevy and @halbfinger
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